THE CHILDREN AND THE FLOWERS

Tragedy in autumn

The flowers bloomed in summer

in the field down Janie's way,

their petals fell in autumn

and her kids went out to play...

the skies were bleak and looming,

and carelessly they roamed

here and there and everywhere

ever further from their home.

And the flowers bloomed in summer

but by winter they were dead

and Janie by her window

was filled with painful dread...

then springtime came, and blooming,

and the flowers lived again

But Janie's precious infants

were lost in autumn's rain...